At last the special came in sight and we set out on the wildest of rides to Georgetown. Having seen Milady in a doze on a sofa in the train, Crandall and I climbed up to the railed-in roof of the car and, with the wind beating down our very eyelids, watched the narrow escapes of dogs, cows, donkeys and coolies, from the track at the approach of this unlooked for train. The yellow and scarlet Blackbirds blew up like chaff on either hand. Egrets, Ibises and Jabirus watched in amazement from afar, or flew hurriedly off at the long drawn-out siren whistle, which hardly ceased across the whole country. We met the single afternoon train, side-tracked to let us pass, and then had an open road to Georgetown. Slowing down, we passed through the station, on through the streets, to within a half block of Mr. Vinton’s house. Here good Dr. Law took charge and, ten hours after the accident, fitted the shattered bone so skilfully that hardly a trace remains of the bad colleus fracture. The patient had no temperature at the time of the operation, the only ill effect being a short, sharp attack of malaria. I cite all these details chiefly to show the falsity of most of the universal slanders on a tropical climate. Nine days afterward on April 24th, we sailed from Georgetown, homesick with desire to remain longer in this wonderland. The three short expeditions we had made, served only to whet our eagerness to search deeper beneath the surface, and glean some of the more fundamental secrets which Nature still hides from us. But we had fulfilled the bush-proverb; we had “eaten of labba meat and drunk of river water” and we know in our hearts that some day we shall return. Meanwhile the thought of that vast continent, as yet almost untouched by real scientific research; the supreme joy of learning, of discovering, of adding our tiny facts to the foundation of the everlasting _why_ of the universe; all this makes life for us—Milady and me—one never-ending delight. FOOTNOTES [A] The superior figures following the names of birds throughout the volume refer to a list of their scientific names given for identification in Appendix A. [B] Actual temperatures (Fahrenheit) taken in the mangrove forest on board the sloop are as follows: March 30th— 5.30 A.M. 66° 9.30 86° 11.30 86° 1.30 P.M. 86° 7.00 78° March 31st— 5.30 A.M. 71° 6.30 72° April 1st— 6.00 A.M. 73° 10.00 80° 2.00 P.M. 85° 6.00 80° April 2nd— 5.30 A.M. 69° 7.30 77° [C] In looking over the laws of the colony I found the following Wild Birds’ Protection Ordinance. I have added the explanatory names in parentheses. (C. W. B.) List of Wild Birds absolutely protected.